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No, the language is very clear and simple, the issue is that clear and simple language is woefully inferior to legalese when it comes to eliminating semantic am
by jjk166 3y ago
No, the language is very clear and simple, the issue is that clear and simple language is woefully inferior to legalese when it comes to eliminating semantic ambiguity. In the case of the second amendment's comma usage, it was actually grammatically correct at the time, but English has changed since then, thus highlighting another issue with plain language. Similarly, the phrase "thou shall not kill" is very clear and simple, but people have spent millenia trying to figure out how to handle countless edge cases.